 In 2015 Kornbluh signed an open letter, coordinated by the ONE Campaign, addressed to Angela Merkel and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, urging them to focus on women as they serve as the head of the G7 in Germany and the AU in South Africa respectively, which will start to set the priorities in development funding before a main UN summit in September 2015 that will establish new development goals for the generation.In 1993, Kornbluh married lawyer James J. Halpert, for whom the character Jim Halpert, on the television show "The Office", is named.They have two children.